Four decades after their prediction, anyonic excitations were observed by two experimental groups [1]}, [2]}. This should be a deep source of satisfaction to all of us who put forth the prediction. Developing the theory that led to my own group's prediction took 15 years, during difficult times professionally. But both groups of experimentalists, apparently unaware of our early published work, cited only the articles by others. Shortly thereafter, widely circulated science magazines repeatedly attributed the prediction of anyons exclusively to Wilczek [3]}, [4]}, [5]}, [6]}, who had shared the Nobel Prize in 2004 for his earlier work on quark confinement and asymptotic freedom. And the related fundamental insights about anyons that we were first to publish remain wholly unacknowledged.
